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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2008, p. 2406-2409, Vol. 46, No. 7
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01993-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Epidemic of Genotype GII.2 Noroviruses during Spring 2004 in Osaka City, Japan{triangledown}

Nobuhiro Iritani,1,2 Atsushi Kaida,1 Hideyuki Kubo,1 Niichiro Abe,1 Tsukasa Murakami,1 Harry Vennema,2 Marion Koopmans,2 Naokazu Takeda,3 Hisashi Ogura,4 and Yoshiyuki Seto4,5*

Department of Microbiology, Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, 8-34 Tojo-cho, Tennoji-ku, Osaka 543-0026, Japan,1 Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands,2 Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Gakuen 4-7-1, Musashi-Murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan,3 Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan,4 Laboratory of Microbiology, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan5

Received 9 October 2007/ Returned for modification 14 December 2007/ Accepted 14 May 2008

Between March and May 2004, a GII.2 genotype norovirus strain caused an epidemic of acute gastroenteritis in Osaka, Japan. Phylogenetic analysis showed that this strain was distinct from all other GII.2 strains detected in Osaka City between April 1996 and March 2005.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Microbiology, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. Phone: 81-72-254-9484. Fax: 81-72-254-9918. E-mail: seto{at}vet.osakafu-u.ac.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 21 May 2008.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2008, p. 2406-2409, Vol. 46, No. 7
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01993-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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